Turkey: 'Sow war and reap terror'

During 1992-95, the Pentagon helped with the movement of thousands of mujahideen and other Islamic elements from Central Asia, even some Turks, into Europe to fight alongside Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs.

"It was very important in the rise of mujahideen forces and in the emergence of current cross-border Islamic terrorist groups who think nothing of moving from state to state in the search of outlets for their jihadi mission. In moving to Bosnia, Islamic fighters were transported from the caves of Afghanistan and the Middle East into Europe; from an outdated battleground of the Cold War to the major world conflict of the day; from being yesterday's men to fighting alongside the West's favored side in the clash of the Balkans. If Western intervention in Afghanistan created the mujahideen, Western intervention in Bosnia appears to have globalized it."
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Oh, the tangled webs we weave... Shortly after 9-11, I was listening to a Seattle talk-show host who had been in Bosnia. His interpreter was a Muslim who had taken money from bin Laden to fight the Serbs. He had his interpreter on the phone from Bosnia talking about that — and the mujahideen.